For decades, we were told that fat was the enemy — that butter, tallow, and animal fats would clog our arteries and kill us. This was one of the greatest nutritional deceptions of our time.
The truth is that traditional fats like butter, beef tallow, coconut oil, avocado oil, and extra virgin olive oil are some of the healthiest fats for the human body. They are stable, nutrient-dense, and have been part of the human diet for thousands of years.
Meanwhile, the highly processed vegetable and seed oils (canola, soybean, corn, sunflower) that replaced them are chemically unstable, highly inflammatory, and loaded with omega-6 fats that drive chronic disease. These industrial oils are the real culprits behind arterial plaque and widespread inflammation — not natural saturated fats.
The war on fat also robbed our brains of the cholesterol they desperately need. Your nervous system literally runs on cholesterol. By depriving it of this essential building block, we have impaired neurological function, mood regulation, and overall resilience.
Shortly after I eliminated all seed oils and began relying primarily on animal fats and traditional healthy fats, my inflammation dropped dramatically. I felt better than I had in years. Today at 42, I feel like I'm in my 20s.
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